ABSTRACT
After narrowly losing the presidential election of 1960 and then the race for governor of California just two years later, Richard Nixon held a press conference to inform the gathered, “You won’t have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore.” But he turned out to be wrong. Remarkably, Nixon resurrected his political career. He captured the Republican nomination for president in 1968. Nixon’s political operatives designed a “Southern Strategy” to win the election and begin to reshape the Republican Party (Reichley 1981; Skrentny 1996). As part of that strategy in the general election, Nixon used the Supreme Court as a foil, running against the liberal, activist Warren Court (Abraham 2008).
